Charles E. Stuart

Charles Edward Stuart (25 November 1810-19 May 1887) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MI 2) from 6 December 1847 to 3 March 1849 (succeeding Edward Bradley and preceding William Sprague) and from 4 March 1851 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding Sprague and preceding David A. Noble), and a US Senator from 4 March 1853 to 4 March 1859 (succeeding Alpheus Felch and preceding Kinsley S. Bingham).

Biography
Charles Edward Stuart was born in Waterloo, New York in 1810, and he became a lawyer in 1832. He settled in Portage, Michigan in 1835, and he served in the state legislature before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849 and from 1851 to 1853 as a Democrat. In 1852, he was elected to the US Senate, and he was an unsuccessful candidate for the governorship in 1858. During the American Civil War, he raised and equipped a Michigan regiment of the US Army, and he was commissioned as its colonel, although he was forced to resign due to ill health. He died in 1887.